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...Washington police were prepared for the convocating Klansmen. Every policeman on the force was called on duty. A regiment of Marines guarded the U. S. Treasury Building...
Within six hours General Carmona had rallied a regiment to his support, marched through the streets of Lisbon to the Dictator's residence, arrested him, locked him up in the suburban Belem Palace...
...370th (8th Illinois) colored regiment (officered by Negroes) received more citations and croix de guerre than any other American regiment in France...
Events poured like a torrent from that decision.* Within a few hours the Marshal's throaty telephone commands brought regiment after regiment at the double. As Pilsudski, eyes aflame, tugging at his drooping mustache, neared Warsaw, President Wojciechowski, personally commanding a troop of soldiers still loyal to the Government, barred his way at the entrance to a long bridge. Imperious Pilsudski demanded the resignation of the Witos Cabinet, the formation of a Cabinet largely Socialist. Since the President's troops were outnumbered, he could offer no more defiance than to refuse the demand, hastily retreat to the Belnedere...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...